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I see I'm not as far behind as I thought I was. I have not been watching much TH-cam lately and lost track of my podcasters! Your sweater is lovely. I made the Zweig and am very happy with it, so I recommend it as a next Caitlin Hunter project. I like how you solved your rolling cowl problem by adding a second side to it; good thinking outside the box. Thanks for the shout out. I work my socks with an 8-inch cuff; I used to wear knee highs back in school all the time, so I like a longer cuff. As for the twisting of the socks in the shoes, I wish I knew the answer to that one...for me it only happens with my right foot...what the heck? lol. I'm looking forward to hearing about the MKAL.

Beautiful projects! I always keep the contrast pattern colour below and to the left to make it more prominent🌸🧶

Your Alpine Bloom looks great! I also had shoulder pain from using a drop spindle. I have a few e-spinners now, which I love! I have a Nano and also the Electric Eel Wheel 6.0. Maurice is great at designing good products and he listens to his customers.

Hello fellow Ottawa knitter ❤ I love your Autumn Alpine bloom sweater. Just cast on a few weeks ago and am about 1/3 through the colour work yoke. Kroy FX is a wonderful suggestion for colour changing yarn that is affordable.

Thank you for the podcast recs…subbed to both now.

I love the beginning of your shawl can’t wait to see the final product❤

Looking forward to watching your first MKAL journey.

Love the Lilly of the Valley in particular in your bouquet. And your Alpine Bloom is stunning!

Alpine Bloom sweater looks amazing 🤩 Maybe one day I will learn to knit colourwork 😊

Your Alpine Bloom looks gorgeous! I love the contrast yarn, it's so pretty and has so much depth. I have never used the FX sock yarn, but now I really want to 😅. I can't wait to see your knit picks shawl. I really love how the purple and green compliment each other in that pattern. The stroll tonal colors are beautiful, they really hit it out of the park with that yarn. Thank you so much for the shout out 🙂. I hope you have an amazing week!

So nice to catch up with you today. Your sweater looks amazing. Have fun with the spinning!

Picking up an old WIP that has no notes…oh dear! I too have learned to be kind to myself by jotting down notes as I go. It certainly assuages anxiety! ❤

Always so exciting when you have a new episode. Watching lowers my blood pressure!!

I love your Alpine Bloom! I also got some Stroll sale yarn from Knitpicks! I love it for socks!

Love this video, also love the thumbnail ❤❤

I have to say that your Alpine Bloom looks fabulous on you! Well done, I'm looking forward to starting mine with the Champagne 2.0 silky contrast yarn I bought from Bar a Tricot at the Twist Yarn Festival in Quebec, where we met!

It took me a hot minute but I am so glad to have finally tuned into your wonderful take of the Almonte Fibrefest! Thank you so much for coming into my booth and It was so lovely to meet you and your daughter. I'm thrilled you found the mohair you were looking for and I can't wait to see it knit up. Have a blast with the MKAL!

Such a lovely festival -- I would love to go next year

Beautiful work! I have just started felting this summer with 2 friends. It is so fun.

Oh my goodness, I’m in the process of knitting the pattern and it’s awesome to see a real one. Treasure it it’s beautiful!😍

Thank you for the festival recap, it looked amazing! There was so much more than yarn there, it looked like such a great one to go to. I love the merino and mill ends fiber that you picked up. Can't wait to see your MKAL, the colors that you picked go great together!

Always fun to see a recap of a yarn festival 😊 Great purchases Margaret!

Hello from Germany, lovely episode, it feels like I was there with you. I tried drop spindle spinning, found it was not for me and bought a spinning wheel, which was perfect. And yes. You can spin the yarn and knit the sweater in a few months. It is so good to see you looking forward to the MKAL (not my cup, but you do you) and all excited about the new connections you made. Retirement isn´t so bad, is it? Special thanks to Sarah for the footage and photos! Great Job. Have a wonderful time, Su/Pinguinpullover

Wow I am amazed by this 😮

Great footage and recap of the Almonte Fibre Festival. You have made some new connections for a knit group! That is awesome. P.S. Great voice over :)

You are very brave to participate in a mystery KAL!

Your coverage of the yarn show was so well done - organized - highlighting something from each vendor. I’m interested to see your progress with the MkAL and with your spinning.

Definitely a fun adventure, can't wait to see whats in store!!

Very it was very nice day out but it’s tuckered me out ❤

It was a wonderful experience for me filming and enjoying everything it had to offer

Very interesting.I have never heard of a yarn festival!❤It sounds great and a dream for we that love to crochet. 💕

Great episode. Thanks for showing us the festival. I also use shampoo bars and am always on the lookout for them. It was very nice that you could share the day with your daughter.

Fun to see the fair through your eyes! My next exposure to tempting yarn fumes will be in Scotland in 2 weeks at the Scottish Yarn Festival. I’m leaving lots of room in my suitcase for fiber souvenirs!

Your local yarn festivals and knitting shops should hire you and your daughter to do publicity and social media! This was such a fun episode, even for a non-knitter.

This is one of my favorite episodes! The yarn festivals should hire you to do their public relations.

Thank you for sharing this wonderful time that you spent with your daughter and Alex 😊 Margaret you have bought some beautiful yarn!

What an awesome fiber festival! I love the Myofibrille Tee, I would love to knit one too. I’ve been to Montreal last year and missed Knit City by a few days because I did not realize when it was taking place. I met a virtual knitting friend from the lockdown this June when I visited her state. It was nice to meet in person and interact. Although we didn’t go anywhere, it was awesome all the same. Thank you for sharing. Happy knitting!❤

I have been to Twist the last 2 years, and have enjoyed it, but find it to be somewhat overwhelming, so I didn't go this year. I do plan to attend the Almonte Fibrefest on Sept. 7th. Hopefully we'll be able to meet each other.

I can’t believe you didn’t take the bunny home ❤ thanks for sharing your day.

Hey there! Just finished watching your podcast about the visit you made to Twist with your daughter on Sunday last. I visited that same festival on Friday and Saturday and let me tell you, you chose the best day! I live in Laval, Québec and the trip takes me about 90 minutes. During the storms we had on Friday, you really had to be motivated to drive with all that water raining down! On Saturday it was much better and I did get to see again the sheep herding demo during the afternoon. I skipped Twist last year because....Covid (which caught me on my way back from the Makers Meet in Chicago!) but I had been there in 2022 and it was grand. You were right in mentionning that most of the crafters in the tent are new to the festival with two major exceptions: Madame Tricote, which you visited and from where you bought your hand cream (Karine, the lovely owner) has a van/boutique which you've probably visited and it would be sort of complicated to get it into the arena floor and BigBlueMoma, which requires a lot of floor area. On Friday, the rain was soooo bad that they actually got some of their baskets wet when the water got into the tent. Thank you so very much for making relive my visits with you images. Funny how we noticed the some of the same things. I got my soaps from the same place you got your shampoo bars, I almost bought yarn from the vendor showing the Butterfly shawl but thought it was a bit steep for me (Guess I should have gone back on Sunday, eh?) Looove the Scrumptiouspurl balls and got to squeeze a few (but since I had already bought two at KCM in 2022, I passed my turn this time). I stopped over at the Bar à Tricot/Artfil booth and said Hi! to Patricia and Precillia and got to show them the Sheep Camp Tee I was making with their Chalet base (Thanks to Kelly for the inspiration!) I was looking at your Rock it tee and I thought it was great ! I made one myself using the Champagne base so great minds, eh? I was also looking at the shawl you're wearing in your podcast and thought it looked great...and familiar. It had a Botanic vibe to it and when I consulted your Ravelry project page...what do you know? So, that's enough from me for now. My Daybreak Tee is not going to finish itself by itself! Thanx again for the time and efforts to publish this podcast...it was much appreciated. Your fellow tricopine, Isabelle (yeah, that Isabelle!) PS: Hope you don't mind...I "friended" you on Ravelry without asking first.

What a lovely recap of the festival! Having your personal film crew along must have been so helpful, enabling you to have both hands on the fabulous yarn and sheepy goodness and not needing to juggle a camera too. Making a guest appearance here was fun for me - it was great to meet you in person. Your daughter's cute progress keeper with your podcast logo has been put to work on a shawl project already, indicating the right side. I made socks with Urth yarn not long ago and made a little note on my Ravelry page about something I just happened to think of doing - you might find this helpful too. The colours change in a very subtle way, unlike self-striping yarn that has abrupt changes from one colour to another. It isn't quite so easy to start each sock in the same place, even though there are two cakes to help with matching two socks. I found it helpful to pull out a long length of yarn from both cakes of yarn to try and better match up the colouring, then I put a slip knot in the same place on each to indicate where to start the cast-on.

Hello from Kingston. Thanks for the lovely tour ❤

Thanks for taking us along for the yarn festival. It's wonderful to have a daughter as a crafting buddy. Wishing you both the best.

Love the videos... can't wait till the next adventure :)

Your Tahiti-coloured top is really beautiful, Margaret, and suits you very well. Being able to fill your mom's pretty vase with those gorgeous crocheted flowers must be so rewarding - I'm looking forward to seeing the vase fill up as you make more of them. It was wonderful to meet and spend time with you and your daughter at the Twist Festival!

I loved this episode so much! Nate was an absolute, ray of sunshine! I love how he lit up talking about the Cat charity. Loved the farm video. I look forward to watching the rest of your shows. Thank you.

They’re so pretty 😭🩷🩷

Congratulations on your retirement! I love the idea of a crocheted bouquet to fill one of your mother’s beautiful vases ❤

It looks like retirement is agreeing with you. The crocheted tops are lovely and I look forward to seeing more of the flowers. Enjoy the rest of the summer.

Just found your channel today. Thank you. I, too, found that learning piano as an adult with a much younger teacher was quite intimidating!! Hope you get to the stage where you enjoy it.